Africana faith : a religious history of the African American crusade in Islam / edited by James L. Conyers, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conyers, James L., Jr., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American Muslims.

Physical Description:

xi, 520 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, [2017]

Summary:

Essentially, the study of black religion in America has been mysterious, quarrelsome, and paradoxical. Repeatedly the reason in this primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. Recently, there have been numerous volumes in the form of biographical or communal studies conducted on Black twentieth century religious figures. Much of this discussion has exacerbated in hierarchy of religious values, rather than a concentric analysis of the role and function of spirituality and religiosity. Therefore, this collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments. Part 1 Historical overview : Notes in Negro American influences on the emergence of African nationalism (1960) / George Shepperson

Islam as a factor in West African culture (1911) / George W. Ellis

Muslims in early America (1994) / Michael A. Gomez. Part 2 Sociology of religion : The voodoo cult among Negro migrants in Detroit (1938) / Erdmann Doane Beyon

Elijah in the wilderness (1960) / Nat Hentoff

Registered with Allah (1997) / Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy

Moorish Science Temple of America (1957) / Arthur H. Fauset - Negro nationalism and the Black Muslims (1962) / Claude Lightfoot. Part 3 Politics of religion : The Black Muslims and the Negro American's quest for communion: a case study in the genesis of Negro protest movements (1969) / Howard Kaplan

The Black Muslim movement and the American constitutional system (1983) / Oliver Jones Jr

Black Muslims and the police (1965) / Lee P. Brown. Part 4 Economics of religion : The Protestant ethic among the Black Muslims (1966) / Lawrence L. Tyler

Christian elements in Negro American Muslim religious beliefs (1964) / Abbie Whyte

Watchtower influences on Black Muslim eschatology: an exploratory story (1970) / William Maesen

The Moslem influence among American Negroes (1962) / John F. Hatchett. Part 5 Psychology of religion : The Muslim mission in the context of American social history (1983) / C. Eric Lincoln

African American Muslim women (1991) / Beverly Thomas (Aminah) McCloud

What shall we call him? Islam and African American identity (1997) / Richard Brent Turner

Family stability among African-American Muslims (1991) / Na'im Akbar

Aspects of Black Muslim theology (1981) / Zafar Ishaq Ansari. Part 6 Interdisciplinary perspectives : W.D. Muhammad: the making of a "Black Muslim" leader (1933-1961) (1985) / Zafar Ishaq Ansari

From Black Muslim to Bilalian: the evolution of a movement (1982) / Lawrence H. Mamiya

The Black Muslims: from revolution to institution (1964) / Michael Parenti

The Black Muslims in America: a reinterpretation (1963) / W. Haywood Burns

Islam in the United States of America: a review of the sources (1981) / Sulayman S. Nyang. Index

About the editor and contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761868720

9780761868729

OCLC:

973058158

Publisher Number:

99972103744